Stories of weird iPad shipping routes have been cropping up a while on the web and there's usually a perfectly logical explanation for why our precious tech takes so many diversions en route to our homes. This one regarding a MacBook Air is really strange, though.
One bewildered Reg reader sent us shots of his tracking …

There could be tax advantages?

Clearly they

Food miles - Computer miles

It's great Apple consider the materials used and the impact on the environment - but if this is true and not some gitch then it's appalling. Aside from the environment, think of all the fuel that could be saved - products could cost less and would arrive quicker if the route was China - Germany - UK

I've been wondering what the game is with that. While there's some amusement value in seeing which timezone my new laptop's appeared in this time I think I'd rather have the damned thing to actually use instead.